Summitless

Get a head start on the new year by thinking of New Years Resolutions in October! By focusing on the pitfalls of personal goals, we hope to highlight some tips and tricks that prepare everyone for a successful 2022.

Chaos can strike at any moment. Although situations vary in severity, that doesn't change how they impact our thought process and morale. Today we discuss tips and a comprehensive strategy for focusing during chaos.  

We all have some phrases tucked into the back of our mind, whether they be from a movie, song, or motivational poster at work. Sure, they can be cheesy, but other times they can be used to leverage powerful responses to the various situations we face. 

Time to come back to a previous topic but talk about the dark side! Habits are powerful, unfortunately that means that bad habits can do some serious damage. What are some common bad habits, how do they get formed, and what can we do to break them?    

"Time is money," as the phrase goes... but seriously if it is money, then it ought to not just be spent, but also invested. What does it look like to invest our time, and what are some tools to help us do so wisely?

Continuing our interview with Luke Noland, we hear more history behind the brand of FourScore and Valiant, along with more tips and perspectives to equip us all.

Luke Noland, local entrepreneur, joins us as our first guest! Luke shares his summitless journey that he has been on, and we pick up some concepts to add to our own expeditions. We hope you do the same!

Coinciding with reflective writing, Zak and Ian discuss techniques and benefits to reading however, whenever, and whatever you can.

Haiku helps focusThis and other techniques helpLive life SummitlessToday Zak and Ian discuss various writing techniques to aid your brain in engaging in the world around you.

Final essential leadership skill: Embody the Values. Simple stated, leaders need to know what they're all about and consistently align those values with what they say and do... a little bit harder to dialogue through. Zak and Ian chew on the concept and converse about the difficulty of application.

Second to last essential leadership skill: Value Results & Relationships. Zak walks through how leaders often are schematized into being a "results person" or a "people person," and great leaders need to be both.

Third of five essential skills in leadership: Reinvent Continuously. Zak walks through the excitement of a reality where reinvention is always possible. Pulling resources and examples from mathematical theories, mountain climbing and Formula One racing, Ian and Zak discuss the necessity of reinvention.

Second of five essential skills in leadership: Engage and Develop Others. Zak walks through the importance of getting those you lead engaged with the roles and work ahead of them, and Ian helps brainstorm methods of development.

First of five essential skills in leadership: See and Shape the Future. Zak walks through the importance of having a preferred picture of reality, and knowing the steps to make that vision actuality.

Starting Season 2 off with a series! For the next six episodes Zak will be taking us through the essentials of Servant and Transformational Leadership, two of the most modern and tested leadership theories. Join us as we lay the foundation: Why service matters in leadership.

Checking in real quick to give an update. Enjoy the end of 2020, we'll see you in 2021!

Knowing the "why" behind any decision, organization, or personal pursuit is a powerful catalyst. Why... is "why" such a powerful concept? Engage with us as we look to respected studiers of this field.

We all tend to be hurried people, at least occasionally, most often frequently. Usually we think our hurried state is due to the urgent need for action... but urgency looks different from hurry, it looks like focus.

For our second September episode Zak and Ian continue to share their own personal toolkits. Now they discuss the resources and tools that make their habits possible. What tools are needed for personal success?

This September Zak and Ian interview each other to see what lies inside their personal toolkits. First up are habits. What habits enacted have led to success?

We all want it, we'll never completely have it, and vying for it can lead to many problems. How do we release control over contexts we shouldn't have control over, and gain control over self and our responsibilities?

Learning how to think is an essential skill. And as we look at the present times, it seems lacking. Let's cover a broad base of essential skills needed to think critically.

Specializing only works for the top percentile. If you really want to be equipped for present and future opportunities, then it's time to start combining diverse skills. Expanding your wheelhouse, being a generalist, should be a top priority.

The subject may not be cheery but it is certainly important! To be human is to deal with loss. So how can we be equipped to navigate through the darkest of circumstances, when livelihood and career are taken from us, when we lose those we love, when everything collapses?

We are swarmed with hundreds... if not thousands of decisions that need to be made every day. If ill equipped, these decisions will swarm us and debilitate us. For the sake of our roles, teams, businesses, families, and more, we need to be made capable of handling decisions timely and wisely.

Living and working in relationship with others provides an arena for conflict. The solution is not to remove relationship, but to understand conflict better. How do we resolve conflict, and can we use conflict for good purpose?

Some view mentorship as either a luxury or something only the elite learner does. Mentors are vital for the summitless journey, they lend their experience and resources to you and care personally for you. Time to get a mentor and be one to someone else.

Most of us have gone through enough group projects to know that such a phrase isn't always the case... What does it take to get a team of people to work well together? We all work in teams, even if they are as small as one individual cooperating with another. It's time to learn how to make 'em work.

In this first ever case study episode of Summitless, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission by looking at what we can learn and apply from the events that took place.

COVID-19 is one crisis among many that leaders will face. Businesses, government, non-profits, and family are all affected by crisis, and more than one crisis will come in a given lifetime. Journey with us as we discuss the challenges and benefits of crisis and how to lead well in the midst of one.

Time is a limited resource, but like any resource there are ways to maximize it! Triage, prioritization, and multiplication. These tools are at our disposal to take a limited resource and utilize it best.

That phrase is probably is a cliche by now, right? Most of us have grown up with the idea that failure is not the end... but we still don't really know what to do with it. This session we discuss how to assess failure, why we should push ourselves to do things that might involve failure, and how the glorification of failure can put us in a tough spot.

Strengths, weaknesses, everyone has them... and honestly they both should be worked on. However, in order to make the most impact, start with your strengths! Zak and Ian discuss some stats behind strength based focuses, and some tools to help identify personal strengths.

Hobbies, deep breathing, intentional empty-mindedness, these are just a few ways someone can engage in active rest. Don't like hobbies? Nobel Prize winners do. Dislike silence? Maybe some deep breathing with light music is your thing. Sitting to think and ponder sounds boring? Maybe you need discipline against the idolatry of hurry.Let's grow together as we discuss the role rest has in our excellence, and simply, our enjoyment of life.

This episode we talk about how the internal conversations you have can make or break performance. We'll weight the pros and cons of negative self-talk, and how to leverage those internal conversations for a growth mindset.

This introductory session we share our heart for this podcast. We define what the summitless journey is, what our values are, some of our background, and what to expect in future episodes.